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You have the choice about how you feel when faced with challenges in your workouts, creating time for your meal plan or meal journal and your reaction to the ups and downs you experience while on the journey towards your goals.

Failure (which only really happens when you stop trying) or success is defined by your choices. You need to realize that where you are at in your life, how you deal with stress and how you face challenges is always the outcome of your choices.

At the most basic level your environment and emotional state drives those choices, be aware of who you surround yourself with and the habits that drive your day.

Most of the time struggles in the gym with workouts and food temptations have more to do with emotional resiliency than the workouts or meal plan. So it’s just as important to work on your emotional resiliency.

The 4 aspects of Emotional resiliency you’ll want to focus on are:

Self esteem

Gratitude

Mindset and an optimistic attitude

Living in line with your “why”

You can’t predict the number on the scale or the weeks, months or years it will take to reach your goals. But you can choose put yourself in a supportive environment, and you can choose to feel good about making a positive change to your health and fitness.

Do you think that it is okay for parents to justify having junk in the house because of their kids?

And with all we know about the relation of sugar and type 2 diabetes and our nutritional intake to obesity related diseases do you think that parents need to take a bigger responsibility and part of the blame for kids growing up with obesity related diseases?

Years ago you could justify that loving parents didn’t know any better, but with our access to information today that excuse become void. So do we now move to blame our hectic lifestyles for the convenience of junk food or do we step up and take responsibility.

I want to know what you think, so post your comments below and let me know your thoughts.

You can tell when someone’s life has been changed and how big of an impact exercise has had on their life by how much they talk about it.

You don’t need to look any further than your Facebook feed either. We all have at least one friend who went from posting about weekly wine nights, hangover pho dates and Netflix binges to back squats, weight loss and the latest gym challenge.

Exercise even saves lives.

So many of your health problems will improve or even disappear as the result of a consistent exercise program. With as little as 30 minutes a day 3 days a week you could reap the rewards of a healthier life.

I’ve seen firsthand the healing power of exercise. I’ve had a client who at age 32 had a stroke and another at age 33 had a heart attack. Both have had their lives changed for the better with exercise.

With our hectic lives and technological advances it’s becoming far too easy to slip into poor health and in my opinion, health issues related to inactivity have become accepted as a part of life. But I assure you down the road we will pay for this one way or another, and the longer you wait the harder it will become to start.

I know you have your reasons for why you feel you “can’t start now” but I have 5 reasons you can…

1. You’ll Feel Great: The first thing that clients tell me after starting my exercise program is how much better they feel.

People don’t realize how bad they feel on a day-to-day basis. They just get used to feeling bad. Then when they start exercising they feel so much better; their energy levels skyrocket and they feel amazing for the first time in years and that’s what really gets them hooked.

2. No more Pain: Over time my clients notice a reduction in aches and pains. Chronic muscle and joint pain that they’ve lived with for years begins to fade. For some, joint replacement surgery is postponed. For others, arthritis pain is reduced.

Your muscles and joints feel better than ever and you are able to do what you want each day and that’s empowering to people who have given up hobbies due to poor health.

3. Eliminate Heart Disease: While clients can’t feel this healing benefit of exercise the same way they feel the post workout endorphin boost, it is the one that saves lives. Exercise removes two of the major risk factors that lead to heart disease:

Take a good long look in the mirror because it’s time for you to take responsibility for your current situation.

You have set and accepted the standards and boundaries that have lead to your current level of health and fitness.

You have set the standard of allowing the exercise to be optional.

You have allowed eating out to become a daily occurrence instead of a weekly treat.

And you have allowed your portions to get out of control.

Sure, you have obstacles that get in your way – your schedule, your job, your kids, the weather, maybe even a knee injury from college…but ultimately you have the body that you accept.

I want to say that one more time so it can sink in.

You have the body that you accept.

And when you take responsibility for your current situation you take control. Whether your realize it or not you posses the ability to transform your body.

If I have sparked some strong emotions with what I’ve told you so far then let that empower you to get up and define your quality of life, your health and your fitness.

Don’t waste one more minute unhappy with your health or fitness because there is always something you can do right now to make a change.

Challenge yourself to make one small change today. Don’t wait or allow yourself to get stuck between inspiration and action. Because the time spent between your inspiration and your action determines whether you will succeed or fail.

If you need help along the way I am here for you. But before you reach out to me be very clear about what you’ll accept of yourself.